Tucked away in the corner of Arkengarthdale and Swaledale, the village of Reeth is an attractive tourist centre with a popular market every Friday. It has been described as a heaven for cyclists . . . The description went on like that for about half a page, with a couple of pictures: a handsome church, a high street, the surrounding Dales. Other websites talked about hiking trails, campsites, the Black Bull pub. I widened my search on Google but nothing of any interest seemed to have happened there. It was not mentioned in any newspaper stories. Nobody famous had lived or died there. It seemed to be a village completely at peace with itself.

What could I do? I had no way of finding Mike Carlyle and I obviously wasn’t going to ask Hawthorne. I thought for a moment, turning the postcard over in my hands.

Then I slid it into my notebook, closed it and went back to work.

Acknowledgments

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About the Author

ANTHONY HOROWITZ, one of the UK’s most prolific and successful writers, may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novels include Moonflower Murders, Magpie Murders—currently being filmed for PBS and Britbox—Trigger Mortis, Moriarty, The House of Silk, The Word Is Murder, The Sentence Is Death, and the bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults. As a television screenwriter he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle’s War on PBS. He lives in London.

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Also by Anthony Horowitz

The House of Silk

Moriarty

Trigger Mortis

Magpie Murders

The Word Is Murder

Forever and a Day

The Sentence Is Death

Moonflower Murders

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